FOSSIL BIRDS. 461 



Order CUCULIFORMES. Cuckoo-like Birds. 



Suborder CUCULI. Cuckoos, Road-runners 



AND Anis. 



Family CUCULIDAE. Cuckoos, Road-runners and Anis. 

 Subfamily NEOMORPHINAE. Road-runners. 



Genus GEOCOCCYX Wagler. 



Geococcyx Wagler, Isis von Oken, XXIV, 1831, Heft v (May), col. 524. 

 Type, by monotypy, Geococcyx variegata Wagler = Snurothera calijor- 

 niana Lesson. 



Geococcyx calif ornianus (Lesson). Road-runner. 



Saurothera californiana Lesson, Compl. Oeuvres Buffon, VI, 1829, 420. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, McKittrick and 

 Carpinteria, California. 



Order STRIGIFORMES. Owls. 

 Family TYTONIDAE. Barn Owls. 



Genus TYTO Billberg. 



Tyto Billberg, Synops. Faunae Scand., I, Pt. ii, 1828, tab. A. Type, by 

 monotypy, Sirix alba Scopoli. 



Tyto alba (Scopoli). Barn Owl. 



Strix alba Scopoli, Annus I, Historico-Naturalis, 1769, 21. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Vei-o (Stratum 3), and cavern de- 

 posits near Lecanto, Florida; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, and Carpin- 

 teria, California. 



Family STRIGIDAE. Horned Owls and Allies. 



Genus MINERVA Shufeldt. 



Minerva Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 1915, 43. 

 Type, by monotypy, Aquila antiqua Shufeldt. 



